Demonstrating issue with makePublic()

Application.cfc

// Application.cfc
component {

	this.mappings			= {
		"/testbox"		= expandPath("/frameworks/testbox/"),
		"/mxunit"		= expandPath("/frameworks/testbox/system/testing/compat"),
		"/unittests"	= expandPath("/shared/git/blogExamples/unittests")
	};

}

ComponentInDifferentPackage.cfc

// somepackage/ComponentInDifferentPackage.cfc
component {

	package string function aPackageMethod(){
		return "test for this value";
	}

}

runTests.cfm

<!--- runTests.cfm --->
<cfoutput>
	#createObject("mxunit.runner.DirectoryTestSuite").run(
		directory		= getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath()),
		componentPath	= "unittests.testbox.makepublic",
		recurse			= false
	).getResultsOutput("simple")#
</cfoutput>

TestMakePublic.cfc

// TestMakePublic.cfc
component extends="mxunit.framework.TestCase" {

	public void function testMakePublic(){
		variables.test = new somepackage.ComponentInDifferentPackage();
		makepublic(variables.test, "aPackageMethod");
		assertEquals("test for this value", variables.test.aPackageMethod());
	}

}